1940's Christmas Party

Our friends threw a 1940's themed Christmas party on the evening of the 26th, complete with everyone dressed up, 40's music, 40's movie trivia, charades, food, IBC Root Beer. mocktinis, and Cracker Jacks. Tay and I had a great time, and Aiden was received a good report from the babysitter. It was a nice evening.

Aiden's Santa Gift

I am writing this as Aiden is "sneaking" Christmas chocolate mints that Tay has put out for when the Sullivans come over later today. Whatever. If it keeps him from screaming, playing with one of the faucets, opening the presents, or getting sticky all over the cleaned floors or counters then I am fine with it.

After typing that I noticed that Aiden wasn't in the kitchen any longer which means that it is definitely time to check on him. Not to my surprise I found him in the bathtub smearing melted chocolate and playing in the water. Lovely.

Ok, so on to Christmas. We had a very wonderful, relaxing day. It will probably go down as one of the best Christmases for us because of that. We got up around 7:30, had breakfast, let Aiden look at what Santa brought in his stocking, opened gifts, played with the new toys, and then at about 11:30 we all went and took a nap.

After our naps we showed Aiden what Santa brought for him.

He loved it. He kept talking about his park in the backyard.

He liked it so much, the only way that we could get him to eat lunch was to let him eat it on his new table.

He has enjoyed his park a lot, and we are really looking forward to many hours of outdoor, energy-reducing play! Thanks, Santa (and anyone else that helped Santa, you know who you are)!

Merry Christmas!!

It wasn't too long ago that I realized that it isn't fair to expect Tay to keep my family up to date on all that our family has going on via her blog. She uses that for work and for the things that she is most interested in. Also, I've seen how easy it is for my siblings to use theirs as a journal to fulfill mom's Christmas wish of a yearly report. So, as a special gift to mom, I am starting this blog. I hope that you all enjoy!

To start, I'll tell you about Christmas Eve. I got off of work around 1, and got home right as Aiden was going down for a nap. That worked out perfectly, because Tay and I were then able to put together his big Santa gift in the backyard in daylight rather than at night with headlamps like I had thought I would have to do. I'll post pictures of it later today once Aiden has seen it. After we finished that we took a quick nap, finished cleaning the house, had dinner, and then got ready to decorate cookies. We had a blast!

Don't you love Tay's Whooville Green frosting?

Aiden even made a special omage to Papa Bob cookie! Can you tell which one it is?

After cookies, it was off to bed, and this is what we woke up to in the morning.